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Gravity's Rainbow | Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then, as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sibil...

Cutting for Stone | My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Abab...

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami. Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly ex...

Pinball | This story is about me, but it's also about Rat. It's about a quest, a brief love affair, arid the three-flipper Spaceship pinball machine. None. Категория: Книги/Книги на иностранных языках...

The Doors Of Perception | Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. 'Concise, evocative, wise and, above all,...

The Name of the Rose | Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to inv...

Macbeth | He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He's also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. He's ...

Shalimar the Clown | Shalimar the Clown was once a figure full of love and laughter. His skill as a tightrope walker was legendary in his native home of Kashmir. But fate has played him cruelly, torn ...

Things We Say in the Dark | A shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing supernatural fiction. Alone in a remote house in Iceland a woman is unner...

The Human Stain | Reissued in electric new backlist style, The Human Stain is one of Philip Roth's bestselling novels and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 'An extraordinary book - bursting...

The Cry of the Owl | 'Extraordinary... one of her finest novels' Guardian "If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody else did, we'd all go berserk." Jenny believes that sigh...

Feynman's Lost Lecture | On 14 March 1964 Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientific thinkers of the 20th Century, delivered a lecture entitled 'The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun'. For thi...

Gone with the Wind | 'My dear, I don't give a damn.' Margaret Mitchell’s page-turning, sweeping American epic has been a classic for over eighty years. Beloved and thought by many to be the greatest o...

Small World | Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small Wo...

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one morning he is catapu...

On Her Majesty's Secret Service | There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. Ernst Stavro Blofeld, head of the terrorist organization SPECTRE, is holed up in his Alpine base, conducting research...

Buddenbrooks | Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealt...

The Memory Police | Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memor...

Runaway Horses | The second novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetraology. Read this classic exploration of political violence, traditional samurai values and right wing nihilism. Isao is a...

The Ebony Tower | A collection of novellas - perfect examples of Fowles's rich, dazzling, masterly style. The Ebony Tower is a series of five novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. In...

Soldier's Pay | Faulkner's first novel is a humane, searching and powerful exploration of war and mortality A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First W...

Norwegian Wood | Read the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of hi...

The End of the Affair | The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes | This book contains all the investigations and adventures of the world's most popular detective, Sherlock Holmes. From 'The Adventure of the Gloria Scott' to 'His Last Bo...

The Famished Road | Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel 'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything ...

Brave New World Revisited | In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control....

Brave New World | Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now e...

Flaubert's Parrot | Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot...

The Redeemer | Harry Hole returns in a pulse-pounding thriller like no other. 'This book had my pulse in the red zone from start to finish' Michael Connelly A freezing December night Christmas shopper...

The Master and Margarita | The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forc...

I Still Dream About You | Meet Maggie Fortenberry. Her life seems pretty much perfect - she's beautiful, charming and successful, just as you'd expect of a former Miss Alabama. But in fact, Maggie is ...

Ripley Under Ground | The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of c...

And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability | The most recognisable economist on the planet, Yanis Varoufakis, puts forth his case to reform an EU that cur...

London Fields | Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson's dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought...

The Complete Stories | The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary 'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden This volume c...

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales | An introduction to the weird and unsettling world of H.P. Lovecraft, master of horror and pioneer of 'weird fiction' An introduction to the weird and unsett...

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion | 'One of the outstanding writers of the world' New York Times Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dyin...

Chaos | A fascinating, yet clear-sighted overview of one of the most bewildering frontiers of modern physics: Chaos. Uncover one of the most exciting frontiers of modern physics in this fascinating, i...

The Ground Beneath Her Feet | On Valentine's Day, 1989, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake. Her lover, the singer Ormus Cama, cannot accept that he has...

The Last Enemy | The Last Enemy is the story of Richard Hillary, one of Sebastian Faulks' three 'fatal englishmen'. In this extraordinary account, the author details his experiences as a fighter pilot...

Under Another Sky. Journeys in Roman Britain | Take a journey around the archaeological and cultural remains of Roman Britain with the award-winning author of Greek Myths. This is a book about the enc...

The Virgin In The Garden | In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II's arrival on the throne. Its three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other matters. Ste...

Slaughterhouse 5 | Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. Billy Pilgrim – hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee,...

The Sandcastle | A married schoolmaster and young painter must choose between love, duty and ambition - Murdoch at her very best. The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed ...

An Immense World. How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | Discover the world as you've never seen it before - through the eyes of animals The Earth teems with sights and textures, sound...

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman | An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories. Here ar...

Elizabeth Costello | Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her rema...

Earthly Powers | Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revo...

Confessions Of Felix Krull | Discover Thomas Mann's comic novel of deception and misplaced confidence - back in print for the first time in over twenty years. Waiter by day, man about Paris by night; ...

The Kingdom | Jo Nesbo, author of the number one bestselling Harry Hole series, is back with a tense and atmospheric thriller about two brothers bound together by dark secrets. When Roy and Carl's par...

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays | A selection of Oscar Wilde's best and most important plays - sharp, relevant and brilliant to this day. Who would have thought a comedy of manners wri...

The Lemon Table | From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in co...

Brainstorm. Detective Stories From the World of Neurology | 'I loved it. She is in my view the best science writer around - a true descendant of Oliver Sacks' Sathnam Sanghera, author of The Boy with ...

Literary Lunch | A great book is like a feast. We love to concoct stories from food but what about making food from some of our favourite stories? To whip up your own Literary Lunch, just follow this ...

Nemesis | Harry can't trust his own memory A man is caught on CCTV, shooting dead a cashier at a bank. Detective Harry Hole begins his investigation, but after dinner with an old flame wakes up with n...

Gravity's Rainbow | Discover Thomas Pynchon’s brilliant writing in this postmodern literature classic. ‘The greatest, wildest author of his generation’ Guardian We could tell you the year is 1944, tha...

Isabella | Described by Christopher Marlowe as the 'She-Wolf of France', Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. According to popular legend, her angry ghost can be glimpsed a...

A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters | Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10? Cha...

Points of View | Another wide-ranging volume of essays from the prose master Eclectic and illuminating, these essays are the last that Maugham published. Ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novel...

Atomised | The gloriously moving and extravagantly filthy cult classic from the internationally bestselling author of Submission Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else....

Marcus Aurelius. Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor | Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death. A philosopher as well as an empe...

The Art of Fiction | In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis...

Time Regained and A Guide to Proust | Time Regained begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, r...

Player Piano | Player Piano is the debut novel from one of history's most innovative authors, published on Vonnegut's 100th birthday. In Player Piano, the first of Vonnegut's wildly funny and deadly s...